Croatian league results on Saturday:Dinamo Zagreb 0 Zadar 0Medjimurje Cakovec 1 Osijek 1Cibalia Vinkovci 1 Lokomotiva Zagreb 0Karlovac 0 Slaven Belupo Koprivnica 0Sibenik 0 Inter Zapresic 0Istra 1961 Pula 1 Croatia Sesvete 0Hajduk Split 1 Rijeka 1Played FridayZagreb 3 Varteks Varazdin 0

Croatian league table after Saturday's matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points):Dinamo Zagreb 20 14 4 2 58 10 46Cibalia Vinkovci 20 11 7 2 30 9 40Sibenik 20 10 6 4 21 20 36Hajduk Split 20 10 5 5 32

A Croatian court on Friday sentenced a man to 30 years in prison for the murder of the daughter of a prominent lawyer which shocked the country amid a wave of mafia style attacks in the city. The Zagreb municipal court found Mladen Slogar guilty of "first degree murder committed out of ruthless revenge," the state-run HINA news agency reported.

Croatia's efforts in dealing with war crimes cases are insufficient and the country lacks the political will to efficiently handle them, human rights groups said on Thursday. The efforts undertaken by the authorities regarding war crimes cases are "slow and . . . as a whole they are insufficient," three non-governmental organisations, led by Documenta, which monitors war crimes trials, said in a statement.

More than two-thirds of Croatians are satisfied with new leftist president Ivo Josipovic elected two months, an opinion poll showed on Thursday. Sixty-eight percent of 1,000 people questioned by the GfK agency said they were happy with the election of the Social Democrat. Nineteen percent were not satisfied and the remaining 13 percent were undecided.

Croatia's Supreme court said Thursday it has reduced from seven to six years a jail term for an ex-general sentenced for war crimes committed on Serbs during the 1991-1995 war in this former Yugoslav republic. The court decided to reduce a prison term for former Croatian general Mirko Norac, 42, sentenced in May 2008 by a Zagreb court for war crimes against Serb civilians and prisoners of war during the conflict.

A snow storm in Croatia and strong winds along the Adriatic coast on Wednesday caused maritime and road disruption and power cuts. Major roads linking southwestern Croatia to the capital Zagreb were closed at many points, national television reported. Heavy trucks were stopped from driving in the Gorski Kotar region, a mountainous area covered in places with nearly one metre (3.

Croatian farmers stepped up Sunday a seven-day-long protest against the decrease of government subsidies by blocking roads in the east of the country, national radio reported. Farmers blocked traffic with tractors on several regional roads in the largely agricultural east, mainly around the towns of Osijek, Vinkovci and Djakovo, it said.

Montenegro on Thursday cancelled a contract signed last year with a Croatian company to build a highway linking its coast to the northern border with Serbia, the government said. The deal with the Konstruktor firm was revoked as the Croatian company failed to provide financial guarantees before an agreed deadline, Transport Minister Andrija Lompar told reporters.

Draw for the Davis Cup first-round tie between Croatia and Ecuador, to be played here, made on Thursday:Friday (starting 1300GMT)Ivo Karlovic (CRO) v Nicolas Lapentti (ECU)Marin Cilic (CRO) v Giovanni Lapentti (ECU)Saturday (starting 1400GMT)Ivan Dodig/Antonio Veic (CRO) v Nicolas Lapentti/Giovanni